Ball storage transmitter



Dec. 1925- E. E. KLEINSCHMIDT BALL STORAGE TRANSMITTER 2 Sh eets-Sheet 1 Filed July 9. 192a ATTO EY Patented Dee. 1, 1925.

urrso STATES PATENT} OFFICE;

EDWARD E. KLEINSC HMQIDT, OELONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB, BY KRONE ASfiIG-NMENTS, 'lQ MORKRUM-KLEINSCHMIDT CORPORATION, 01' CHICAGO, ELI- IlgTOXS, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

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is sending code combinations of electrical impulses particularly useful for the transmission. of signals in printing telegraph, fire alarm, and selective signaling systems. More particularly the present invention 15 is an improvement in'ball transmittersof the type disclosed in copending application Serial, Number Y 521,394, filed December 10, E221. Due to the inertia, the time re-- suited for the balls to drop into position on 20 the rotating wheel is too long to permit of high speed'eignaling when a single file of ,balls is utilized to send. acode combination. The objects of thepresent invention are to overcome this defect of the transmitter dis-' closed in the copending application, to pro vide a high speed ball storage transmitter, and such other objects as will appear in the detailed description of a preferred embodi mentof the invention of which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation partially in section.

Figure 2 is a fragmental front elevation of the upper part of the transmitter.

- Figure 3 is a sectional view taken along line A-A of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmented plan view'of the lower part 015 the transmitter showing ,a form with a special start contact.

a shown in Figure 3. I

' Figure 6 is a fragmental plan View of a single contact form. 1

Figure 7 is a front elevation of shown in Figure 5.

The permutation bars land start bar 2 the part are actuated by the usual form of keyboard,

tape, or perforated card control in any Well known manner to set bars 1 in various combinations and to uniformly operate start bar 2. Each of the'bars 1 and 2 is provided with an extension-3 with n perforation 4 just large enough for theballs 5 to pass through. Arranged above the centers of movement of pertorations a are a plurality Figure 5 is a front elevation of the part 1923. Serial 'No. 850,820.

of feedand storage tubes 6 of an internal diameter just large enough to permit free passage of balls 5. Tubes 6 communicate with a feed chamber which is inclined downward from left .to right in Figure 2 so that balls fed into 7 at the left will roll'into and fill up tubes 6. Communicating with in a section 9 (Figures 5 and 7 Below each of the bars 1 is a signal stor age tube 10, made upat the top of .two separate tube members 11 with the inner walls thereof directly beneath the center of tubes. 6 as shown in Figure 1. Tubes 11 gradually are merged until the section. shown-in Figure 3-without a dividing wall is attained. A single tube 12 is provided beneathf'sta'rt bar 2. I

Tubes lp an" 11 extend downward until they substantially abut against a cylinder '13 which his pockets 14:, 15, and 16 cut therein in a manner to register with the openin s in tubes 12 and respectively, so that 'alls from the tubes will be picked up by the respective pockets and carried around by rotation of 13. Cylinder 13 is rotated at a uniform rate of speed in any well known manner, and the pocket 14, 15, and: 16 are so arranged that pocket 14 will pass by its 'tube' 12 first and thereafter double pockets P ivoted above cylinder 13 on a suitable support 17 is a universal operating bar 18" adapted to rock a contact arm. Bar 18 has chamber 7 is a feed tube 8 which terminates,

a plurality of lugs 20 which extend down i ward'through openings in guides 21 in a positionto be engaged b balls 5 carried in pockets 16, only of cylin or 13. l

A separate start contact/22 (Figures 4 and 5 operated through arm 23 and lug 2d. exten ing through an openingin guide 25, by balls carried in pocket 14 may be rovided. Or as shown in Figures 6 and 7, universal bar 18 may be extended to carry lug'24 and contact 19 may thus be utilized I to send all of signals.

Contacts 19 and 22 are normally held against a back or spacing contact 25 by means of a spring 26 and when actuated by' a ball, it is thrown against a front or mark ionabut against rotating! cylinder 11 and are picked up inorder by pockets 1;? or 16. Bar 2 is shifted to drop ball into single tube 12 each time the bars 1 are shifted. As soon as the bars have dropped the balls into the proper passages they may be released and restored to central position by meansol springs 25) individual to each of the bars or in any other suitable manner. When in central position another set of balls 5 will drop into perforations at and the bars may again be immediately shiltcd to drop the balls into the storage tubes for a succeeding code combination. Passages 11 are so arranged that -the balls for succceding combinations will remain in properly separated order to avoid mixing of the 'signalsand so none of the balls cau get out of proper order.

As cylinder llrotates' the balls 'l'or each combination will be preceded by at ballpicked up by guide 525 to actuate lug. 2t and send a start or correcting impulse to the line. The halls in tubes 10 will be picked up succssiyely by pockets 15 or 16 depending on their position in tubes 10. Theballs in pockets 1b willbe carried through guides 21. Without ali'ectingr lugs 20, but the ballsin pockets 16 will pass in the marking, channels of guides 12-1 and will actuate lugs 2) tosond marking impulses to the line. After the balls have been carried past the universal. bar 18 they' will drop into passage 9 and roll from 9 into tube 8. A feed tinuously to force balls 5 up through tube 8 into chamber? I it will be obv ous that the ity of the transmitter depends upon the munber and s1 otballs 5, and the length of tubes 10, am these may be varied to suit particular ,de ands. lit will also be. ap parent that manychangcs may be made in the preferred embodiments disclosed by persons skilled in the art withoutdeparting from the spirit of the inventiom and the inventitm therefore to be limited only by theterms'ot the following claims,

Ha ing described preferred embodiments of th iiivention What isdcsired lobe secured'by Letters Patentand claimed as new is; y y

1, A storage transmitter comprising a plurality of contact controllingmembers;

permutation means for arranging said KIIQE11- The balls alu pocket 1% carried around llrrough screw 30 rotates. coir" storage vcapachers in various permutations; storage means for storing, said permutations of members in fixed order, a single transmitting contact suc cessively controlled by said stored permutation members to transmit code c0mbinations of electrical impulses, and means for feeding said members to said permutation -means indiscriminately and out. of order.

2. A transmitter ,for sending selective permutations of impulses comprising a plurality of contact controlling members; a plurality of plural paths in which said members are adapted to move; permutation means for positioning said members to move in said paths in accordance with the signal to be transmitted; and a single contact operated at timed intervals by a plurality of said members, iii-accordance with their positions, to send part of said selective impulsesf h The con'ibination as set forth in claim at timed intervals by said permutations of members to send all of said selective impulses.

4. The combination as set forth in claim 2' and means for preceding each permutation oiiseleetive impulses with an i'm'ariable impulse. v

5. The combination as set forth in claim and a single path in which a contact controlling member is positioned. to move to precede each selective permutation by an invariable impulse. 6, In a transmitter for sending code com- .binations of electrical conditions; transmitting contact operating means; a plurality of contact controlling members positioned in code combinations sin'mltaneously, each combination being advanced abreast towards said operating 1neans; and means for carrying, the elements of said combination said operating *tions' of said stored balls-past impulse transmitting means; and independent rotary means for forciiig said ballsupward into said gravity feeding means.

9. The combination as set forth in claim 8 in which said last mentioned means comprises a continuously rotating screw.

Signed at Long Island City, N. Y., this Ythwlayof July, 1922.

EDlVARD E. KILIEINSOHD'IIDTI.

in which said single contact is operated, 

